Philadelphia 11, Kansas City 3
When: 2:10 PM ET, Sunday, August 25, 2024
Where: Kauffman Stadium, Kansas City, Missouri
Temperature:
93°
Umpires:
Home -
Ben May, 1B -
Jordan Baker, 2B -
Stu Scheurwater, 3B -
Mark Carlson
Attendance:
18193
By Field Level Media
Garrett Stubbs went 4-for-4 with three runs and an RBI to help the visiting Philadelphia Phillies pound the Kansas City Royals 11-3 in the rubber match of their three-game series on Sunday afternoon.
Kyle Schwarber and Alec Bohm each had two hits and three RBIs, Brandon Marsh had two hits and scored twice and Nick Castellanos hit a two-run homer for the Phillies, who went 3-3 on a six-game road trip.
Phillies left-hander Kolby Allard (2-0) was called up from Triple-A Lehigh Valley and allowed two runs and eight hits in five innings. He struck out five and didn't walk a batter.
Bobby Witt Jr., Maikel Garcia and MJ Melendez homered for the Royals, who went 0-for-11 with runners in scoring position. Kansas City dropped three games back of the first-place Cleveland Guardians in the American League Central after pulling within a game on Friday night.
Kansas City opens a four-game series at Cleveland on Monday.
Royals starter Seth Lugo (14-8) allowed six runs (five earned) and a season-high 11 hits in 5 1/3 innings. He struck out three and walked one.
Lugo came into the game with the third-best ERA in the AL (3.02) and the most innings pitched (166 2/3).
Stubbs tripled into the right field corner to lead off the third and scored on a double by Schwarber for a 1-0 lead. Bohm came through with a two-out RBI single later in the inning to extend the lead to 2-0.
Witt blasted a 441-foot homer to straightaway center, his 26th long ball of the season, with one out in the third to make it 2-1.
Schwarber's run-scoring groundout in the fourth extended the Philadelphia lead to 3-1, but Garcia drilled his seventh homer of the year on the first pitch of the bottom of the fifth to trim it to 3-2.
Stubbs delivered a one-out RBI double in the sixth to extend the lead to 4-2 and end Lugo's day.
Schwarber grounded the first pitch from Kris Bubic into right field for a single, scoring Johan Rojas, and Stubbs followed Rojas home when Dairon Blanco booted the ball, stretching the lead to 6-2.
Melendez hit his 16th homer of 2024 leading off the home half of the sixth to cut it to 6-3.
For the second straight day, the Phillies blew the game open with five runs in the eighth.
Bryce Harper drove in Stubbs with a double to make it 7-3. Bohm's two-run single made it 9-3, and Castellanos followed with a two-run homer -- his 17th home run of the season -- for an 11-3 lead.
--Field Level Media
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| Philadelphia |
|
Kansas City |
|
Kolby Allard |
Player |
Seth Lugo
|
|
Win |
W/L |
Loss |
|
5.0 |
IP |
5.1 |
|
5 |
Strikeouts |
3 |
|
8 |
Hits |
11 |
|
3.60 |
ERA |
8.44 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Philadelphia
|
16 |
1 |
24 |
.400 |
19 |
4 |
10 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
| Kansas City
|
10 |
3 |
22 |
.270 |
16 |
8 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
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